A while ago, Justine blogged about words she can never remember the name of. Talking about it with some friends, we discovered that nobody knows what 'erstwhile' means. Nobody. I certainly didn't. Some of the suggestions were:
-absent
-distinguished
-naughty
-roving
All wrong. Read the definition here.
B also pointed out that nobody knows what 'palaver' means. I thought it meant 'hubbub' or 'fuss'. It doesn't.
I remember getting all confused about 'caucasian' as a kid. I thought it meant 'asian'. It has 'asian' in it!
English. Wacky. Discuss.
2 comments:
I remember "erstwhile" because it begins with the same letter as "ex".
I had no idea about "palaver". Huh.
Justine L
Jill Jones shares a word in her latest blog post http://rubystreet.blogspot.com/2008/07/interstitial.html
:-) LM
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